Drake Doremus made a real impression with his self-aware love story, Like Crazy. The followup isn't bad, if notably less interesting: the atmospheric and well-acted tale of menopausal crisis. It is derivative, being very indebted to Alan Ball's script for American Beauty both in the general situation and the multiple stranded narrative pile-up climax.

Guy Pearce plays Keith, a married, discontented music teacher who longs for the creativity of his penniless youth. Then pert British exchange student Sophie (Felicity Jones) comes to stay with his daughter, and her shy beauty and musical brilliance startles Keith. This is the chronicle of a taboo relationship foretold, by everyone in the audience.

But Pearce portrays Keith's smouldering, self-pitying unease well and Sophie conveys the self-absorption and dumb insolence of someone used to getting her way. A very controlled, well-executed picture in which the flash of passion never quite arrives.